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Interview with Bressie

Bressie was at #FEILTE to talk on a panel about mental wellbeing, along with former Cork county hurler Conor Cusack, Presenter and ambassador for Pieta House Eoghan McDermott, Psychologist and Clinical Director of AWARE Dr. Clare Hayes, and Teacher and facilitator with ChilloutIreland AnnMarie Ireland.
Matt Cooper chaired the panel.

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Bressie is a music star, an accomplished sportsman and a judge on the Voice of Ireland. He is outspoken on the topic of mental health issues and is an ambassador for Cycle Against Suicide, an organisation that seeks to raise awareness and bring support to those dealing with mental health issues.

We chatted to him about various topics in the areas mental well being,  technology and his teenage years.   He shared his own very personal experiences of dealing with panic attacks and insomnia as a teen and his regret that he waited so long to confide in his family.  He feels that technology can be part of the solution as well as part of the problem and thinks that this is an area that should be investigated.

One of his parting shots in our chat was the importance of following your passions.  He doesn’t believe that parents have a right to direct their children away from their passions, for example telling them that they have no future in music!


Dave and Eadaoin
Youth Media Team

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Interview with Kelly Kirkpatrick

Our last interview of the day was with Kelly Kirkpatrick, organiser of the Khan Symposium. She told us about how Mathletes is about harnessing the competitive sports spirit in an academic setting. She’s already looking to Mathletes 2015 …

Caitlin and Christopher
Youth Media Team

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Honorary YMTer’s

Check out the interviews by Sam, Liam and Tyrese, 4th class pupils in Griffeen Valley Educate Together National School. They were honorary members of the Youthe Media Team for a day.

They did a great job!
Youth Media Team
Dave

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Mentoring honorary YMT members

I went to Griffeen Valley Educate Together National School last week to help out with an App Inventor workshop that Natasha Kiely was giving to Bianca Ní Ghrógáin’s 4th class. While I was there, Bianca asked me to talk through what we do in YMT, with three of the lads in the class. Sam, Liam and Tyrese were interested in interviewing and other aspects of what we do so I showed them how we plan for our interviews, record and publish them.   I was their first guinea pig. Check out our interview!

Youth Media Team

Dave

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Interview with Leanne Lynch

While in the Convent Primary in Nenagh today, for the Skype call with Chris Hadfield, I got to interview Leanne Lynch, the teacher who organised the call.  Leanne told me about how she set up the call by contacting him on his website.  She also spoke about the preparation the class did for the call.  They have been working on the theme of space for the last 5-6 weeks and have been in contact with other people such as Dr. Max Bernstein from NASA, Professor Peter Gallagher from Trinity College and Frances McCarthy from CIT and Blackrock Observatory in Cork.

Dave
Youth Media Team

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Skype with Commander Chris Hadfield

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I got a chance to go to my sister’s school to be part of a skype with Commander Chris Hadfield, an astronaut on the International Space Station.  It was a very inspirational call with Chris sharing what got him interested in space (the moon landing he saw at age 9 in 1969), the experiments he did on the Space Station and what day to day life was like in space.

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He came across as a very nice man who took a lot of time to answer the questions that the girls had prepared for him.  He knows a lot about Ireland because his daughter is studying at Trinity College.  He mentioned that  he loved seeing the green of Ireland as he came across the Atlantic on his 16 orbits of the planet every day.

Dave